Mamas with depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders

Citalopram experiences?

Has anyone ever been prescribed citalopram? What are your experiences?

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Keep in mind, everyone is different and different medications work differently for different people.

For me, I was on it for a very short time because it made me suicidal. That said, my husband has taken it for years and it works very well for him with the only side effect he experiences being a sexual one.

I was on it for a while after I had my first kid. We had to keep upping the dose for me. Unfortunately I had to stop around 4 years of taking it because it was causing my anxiety and blood pressure to go crazy. Overall I had good experiences with it

I had a really good experience with it and was on the lowest dose for around 3 months combined with CBT before weaning off. I hadn’t wanted to be on medication long term so found this helped me just keep things at bay and stop panic attacks etc / calm me while I learnt coping mechanisms and talked things through and put other things in place to reduce stressors.

I tried sertraline first and had a very bad experience - one tablet of the lowest dose and I was looney all day / felt actively high and ended up in A&E with a complete memory wipe / not being able to ‘think’ sentences until it wore off after 12 hours…. Very frightening and I’m not sure if me just being super sensitive to SSRIs maybe made Citralopram extra effective for me too (although no bad side effects with that one/it seemed to strike the right balance)

Been on it for 6 years with slight increases after having a baby and suffering from PPD but I have no issues. Keeps me awake at night if I take it too late but nothing crazy

Yes but I stopped using it because I would zone out a lot. When I stopped taking it , it made me really depressed and suicidal.

oh my gosh I had a similar experience with setraline although not as bad as yours! I was on citalopram for years and weaned off that before becoming pregnant with my third.. in the third trimester I was prescribed setraline as my anxiety was really really bad… one tablet and I felt like I was high, heart palpitations, dizzy, insomnia… too scared to try it again

thanks Amy! How long did it take for it to work?

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Love my husband. Love my kids. But…

I’m 32 weeks pregnant with twins. I take care of my 4 yo, 2 yo, and 1 yo. I barely have energy to stand anymore. I cuddle and watch movies with my kids all day at this point. My husband is less pushy in this pregnancy in wanting to be touched or love up on me. But I feel more like a tool these days more than ever. He gets frustrated (not to a crazy degree) but I can tell he huffs because he’s probably sexually frustrated from me not wanting to be touched on. (my boobs are super sensitive atm) I love having the babies part, but the pregnancy also now has me feeling like a baby making machine. And a tool with big boobs made for touches and my husbands pleasure. Ofc I love my husband and kids, but with my hormones all wack, it really doesn’t feel the same when you’re not turned on. It’s so hard for me to get turned on. I’m uncomfortable all the time in my own body. Babies moving in there all the time. My children cuddle me all day but get rowdy at the end of the day, so I end up getting touched out and I can get irritable when my husband tries to touch me affectionately. He doesn’t have the tact necessary for me right now, when I wish he wanted to go in for a normal comforting hug I’m let down more often than not, there is almost always a boob groping involved as well. I tried to just let him touch me last night so he could get it out of his system, but he could tell I felt tense. Wish my boobs weren’t such an uncomfortable place for me to be touched. Idk why I’m making this post. Probably just to vent. Wish men were equally as emotionally intelligent as women. Wish I didn’t feel like I still owe him something because he’s picking up a lot of the house load and yet I still need to ask him to do more before these twins arrive. He’s tired every day when he comes home, so he takes a shower sometimes works out, and helps get the kids to bed. So it’s a struggle getting him to help any further than that. Weekends are my only time to get to him. But it’s a struggle to find time on weekends too. I know if he wanted to he would. But there’s just no drive.

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I have 6 weeks left of work and they have completely changed my job spec including my job title and all my responsibilities, they have done this ahead of advertising my maternity cover apparently to fit business needs which I am fine with but i explained as long as it doesn’t effect me before I go. They have now turned round and said they want me to do the training for it before I go and want me to sign a variation in contract asap. Are they allowed to do this? I thought you had the right to come back to the same job within 26 weeks and I haven’t even left yet and they’re changing it? I was going to see what the job was when I got back and go from there but now they’re wanting me to sign this change in contract before I go I don’t know what to do, do I have to sign it ?

I’ve loss it finally

Please help me good or bad advice I need it !!!
Quick rundown had my baby 3 months ago her dad was cheating on me all the way through pregnancy u til 2 months pp . I was depressed and sad along with pnd ! I allowed him to leave my house sleep about and come back I had no fight left in me I was broken emotionless didn’t want to be here . Fact forward to a few days after valentines day a male friend brought me flowers ex didn’t like it called me all the names ect but 4 days later begging me back I tried for our daughter but he’s put his hands on me twice in the month daily name calling body shaming
Then today we was out his friend rang him why we was in the car to say he has 2 girls for them to go link this was on loud speaker ! I lost my shit arguing we got home I seen red n went for him I then got the hammer & smashed his car windows . I know that was wrong but being goaded daily put down n body shamed made me hate him then I just seen red

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